Force Sensing Touchscreen
AssigneeCherif Atia Algreatly
InventorCherif Atia Algreatly
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Abstract
A touchscreen that determines the point of touch and magnitude of a force applied to the touchscreen is disclosed. The force can be perpendicular, parallel, or sloped with respect to the touchscreen surface. The force can also be a plurality of forces simultaneously applied to the touchscreen surface where the centroid and resultant of the plurality of forces are determined. The touchscreen can take the form of various two-dimensional or three-dimensional shapes such as a circle, cube, sphere, cylinder, or the like.
Claims20
A touchscreen to detect the position of touch and the magnitude of a force applied to a touching panel wherein the force can be parallel, perpendicular, or sloped to the touching panel, and the touchscreen is comprised of;
- a touching panel comprised of multiple surfaces attached to each other in three-dimensions;
- a plurality of sensors each of which is positioned at a corner of a surface of the multiple surfaces to detect the partial force applied to the corner;
- a microprocessor that receives the data of the partial forces from the plurality of sensors and determines the position of touch and the magnitude of the force.
A touchscreen to detect the centroid and resultant of multiple forces simultaneously applying to a touching panel at different positions wherein each force of the multiple forces can be parallel, perpendicular, or sloped to the touching panel, and the touchscreen is comprised of
- a touching panel comprised of multiple surfaces attached to each other in three-dimensions;
- a plurality of sensors each of which is positioned at a corner of a surface of the multiple surfaces to detect the partial force applied to the corner;
- a microprocessor that receives the data of the partial forces from the plurality of sensors and determines the centroid and resultant of the multiple forces.
A method for determining the position of touch and magnitude of a force applied to a plurality of surfaces attached to each other at the edges in three-dimensions wherein the method comprising;
- detecting the partial force at each corner of each surface of the plurality of surfaces due to the force;
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- analyzing the partial forces at all corners of all surfaces of the plurality of surfaces to determine the position of touch and magnitude of the force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.